Choi Young-ja

Choi Young-ja
Hangul	최영자
Hanja	崔榮子
Revised Romanization	Choe Yeongja
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'oe Yŏngcha

Choi Young-ja
Country (sports)	South Korea
Born	30 May 1975 (age 48); Seoul, South Korea
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Retired	2006
Plays	Right-handed
Prize money	$95,879
Singles
Career record	213-105
Career titles	8 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 178 (20 May 1996)
Doubles
Career record	131-85
Career titles	12 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 136 (27 July 1998)

Choi Young-ja (born 30 May 1975) is a former professional tennis player from South Korea.

Biography[edit]

A right-handed player from Seoul, Choi began playing tennis at the age of 10. She won her first ITF tournament at Bangkok in 1993 and began touring professionally after graduating from high school in 1994.^[1]

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta she made the second round of the singles competition, with a win over South Africa's Joannette Kruger, before she was eliminated by 11th seed Brenda Schultz-McCarthy of the Netherlands.^[2]

Choi represented the South Korea Fed Cup team in a total of 16 ties. She was most successful in Fed Cup tennis as a doubles player, losing only one of her 12 matches. In singles she won three rubbers, one of which was against Li Na in 1999.

She won the women's doubles gold medal at the 2002 Asian Games and was also a bronze medalist in the team competition.^[3]

ITF finals[edit]

Singles (8-12)[edit]

Legend
$50,000 tournaments
$25,000 tournaments
$10,000 tournaments

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent in final	Score in final
Winner	1.	28 November 1993	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard	Jeon Mi-ra	2-6, 6-4, 6-3
Winner	2.	30 January 1994	Bandung, Indonesia	Hard	Kim Soon-mi	7-6, 6-1
Winner	3.	29 May 1994	Nanjing, China	Hard	Li Yan-ling	6-4, 1-6, 6-1
Runner-up	4.	6 June 1994	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Kim Eun-ha	3–6, 5–7
Runner-up	5.	21 May 1995	Beijing, China	Hard	Wen Yuan	6-4, 6-4
Runner-up	6.	28 May 1995	Beijing, China	Hard	Li Li	2–6, 3–6
Runner-up	7.	4 June 1995	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Kim Eun-ha	2–6, 2–6
Runner-up	8.	17 March 1996	Taipei, Chinese Taipei	Hard	Weng Tzu-ting	1-6, 6-3, 4-6
Winner	9.	24 March 1996	Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei	Hard	Christiane Hofmann	1–6, 6–1, 6–3
Winner	10.	31 March 1996	Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Cho Yoon-jeong	6–2, 6–1
Runner-up	11.	1 April 1996	Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Saori Obata	2-6, 2-6
Runner-up	12.	6 May 1996	Seoul, South Korea	Clay	Kim Eun-ha	6–2, 2–6, 3–6
Runner-up	13.	23 March 1997	Noda, Japan	Hard	Kerry-Anne Guse	6-0, 4-6, 2-6
Runner-up	14.	6 April 1997	Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Cho Yoon-jeong	4-6, 1-6
Winner	15.	13 April 1997	Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Cho Yoon-jeong	6-1, 7-5
Runner-up	16.	28 March 1999	Seoul, South Korea	Clay	Choi Jin-young	6–4, 4–6, 1–6
Winner	17.	21 November 1999	Haibara, Japan	Carpet	Kumiko Iijima	6–3, 6–4
Runner-up	18.	27 February 2000	Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Chae Kyung-yee	6–1, 3–6, 1–6
Winner	19.	11 June 2000	Incheon, South Korea	Hard	Chung Yang-jin	6-1, 6-2
Runner-up	20.	13 August 2000	Nonthaburi, Thailand	Hard	Jeon Mi-ra	1-6, 3-6

Doubles (12-12)[edit]

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	23 May 1994	Beijing, China	Hard	Choi Ju-yeon	Bi Ying Li Li	6-7, 7-6, 4-6
Winner	2.	29 May 1994	Nanjing, China	Hard	Choi Ju-yeon	Jeon Mi-ra Yoo Kyung-sook	6-2, 6-3
Runner-up	3.	29 May 1995	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Choi Jin	Kim Ih-sook Kim Eun-ha	4-6, 5-7
Winner	4.	18 March 1996	Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei	Hard	Kum Ok-im	Nao Akahori Keiko Ishida	5-7, 1-6
Runner-up	5.	5 May 1996	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Benjamas Sangaram	Catherine Barclay Kerry-Anne Guse	1-6, 2-6
Runner-up	6.	23 March 1997	Noda, Japan	Hard	Jeon Mi-ra	Yuko Hosoki Keiko Nagatomi	2-6, 2-6
Runner-up	7.	5 May 1997	Seoul, South Korea	Clay	Park Sung-hee	Cho Yoon-jeong Kim Eun-ha	3–6, 6–7⁽⁶⁾
Winner	8.	4 August 1997	Jakarta, Indonesia	Clay	Kim Eun-ha	Kerry-Anne Guse Kristine Kunce	6–3, 6–4
Winner	9.	15 September 1997	Taipei, Taiwan	Hard	Kim Eun-ha	Kerry-Anne Guse Catherine Barclay	1–6, 6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	10.	18 October 1998	Seoul, South Korea	Clay	Catherine Barclay	Shinobu Asagoe Kirstin Freye	2-6, 6-7
Winner	11.	28 March 1999	Seoul, South Korea	Clay	Kim Eun-sook	Tomoe Hotta Hiroko Mochizuki	6-4, 7-5
Runner-up	12.	9 May 1999	Seoul, South Korea	Clay	Kim Eun-sook	Samantha Schoeffel Iroda Tulyaganova	3–6, 6–4, 4–6
Runner-up	13.	21 November 1999	Haibara, Japan	Carpet	Kim Eun-sook	Maki Arai Kumiko Iijima	2-6, 0-6
Runner-up	14.	20 February 2000	Jakarta, Indonesia	Hard	Kim Eun-sook	Yayuk Basuki Irawati Iskandar	5–7, 5–7
Winner	15.	18 June 2000	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Kim Eun-sook	Chae Kyung-yee Chang Kyung-mi	6–0, 6–0
Runner-up	16.	13 August 2000	Nonthabuiri, Thailand	Hard	Kim Eun-sook	Jeon Mi-ra Chae Kyung-yee	3–6, 2–6
Winner	17.	20 August 2000	Nonthabuiri, Thailand	Hard	Kim Eun-sook	Jeon Mi-ra Chae Kyung-yee	1–6, 6–1, 6–1
Runner-up	18.	10 June 2001	Hilton Head, United States	Hard	Jeon Mi-ra	Kristy Blumberg Karin Miller	4–6, 6–7⁽¹⁾
Winner	19.	17 June 2001	Mount Pleasant, United States	Hard	Jeon Mi-ra	Jane Chi Lioudmila Skavronskaia	6–7⁽²⁾, 6–2, 6–2
Winner	20.	24 June 2001	Easton, United States	Hard	Jeon Mi-ra	Kristy Blumberg Karin Miller	6-1, 6-1
Winner	21.	16 September 2001	Seoul, South Korea	Hard	Kim Eun-sook	Rika Hiraki Kim Eun-ha	6–3, 6–3
Winner	22.	25 February 2002	New Delhi, India	Hard	Kim Eun-ha	Eva Birnerová Jana Hlaváčková	6–7⁽⁴⁾, 6–4, 6–3
Runner-up	23.	2 June 2002	Tianjin, China	Hard (i)	Choi Jin-young	Chan Chin-wei Tong Ka-po	3–6, 6–3, 1–6
Winner	24.	22 July 2002	Incheon, South Korea	Hard	Kim Mi-ok	Kim Eun-sook Cho Eun-hye	6–2, 6–4